tl;dr Today’s Full Moon brings opportunities for reflection on how our community care has grown over these last six months. AND: an Autumn/Winter themed continuation of The Grove: 6 Months of Collective Creative Devotion is now open for registration.
The Full Moon is exact at 18’50 Capricorn at 4:36pm Eastern.
It’s a busy week here at the Kadlec-Jones Wall household: my wife’s second book came out on Monday (order a signed copy of Tarot Spreads from our local bookshop!), we’re re-opening The Grove for our second 6-month session (more on that below!), and I’ve been sitting on a few major announcements. This is to say, it’s been a very Capricorn-coded week, for sure: literally seeing the fruits of one’s labor, as well as continuing to create community structures to support us in These Precedented Times.
On the last New Moon in Capricorn (December 30, 2024), I wrote about worldbuilding and community. It is very telling that that newsletter also coincided with a Grove announcement, that I was thinking about those themes just before Meg’s and my wedding in early January, that over the course of this year, worldbuilding has most often looked like community building. Like creating the structures that support our beloveds in real time.
In a capitalist hellscape that seeks to trap us in our own algorithm, community is truly the antidote to fascism. Intentionally investing in mutual aid and mutual care: this is the medicine of a Full Moon in Capricorn. At Call Your Coven, Meg, Bee, and I have been talking about how community is not automatically the same thing as friendship, and I’m increasingly seeing TikToks saying the same. You can be in community with your friends, of course, but community is also volunteering at your local food pantry, donating to local coat drives, meeting your neighbors and offering to cover each other. It’s getting in the street to protest and document masked mercenaries, yes, but it is also buying out local food vendors so they don’t have to risk getting rounded up by the American Gestapo in order to feed their kids. It’s leading a prayer circle or group spell focused on binding the efforts of this regime; it’s giving a simple tarot card reading to a loved one who needs it without expecting anything in return.
We take care of each other. We all have a role to play. Start local; start small. Courage is a practice.
And speaking of community —
The Grove: 6 Months of Collective Creative Devotion, which I run with my wife Meg Jones Wall of 3am.tarot, is re-opening for an Autumn/Winter session! This next cohort will focus on connecting with creative and spiritual practices that are reflective of the post-harvest season here in the Northern Hemisphere. Our monthly themes will be:
September 2025/Month 1: Harvest / Distribution & Assessment
October 2025/Month 2: Farmer’s Market / Comparison & Competition
November 2025/Month 3: Rot & Compost
December 2025/Month 4: Communal Exchange & Holiday
January 2026/Month 5: The Dark Midwinter
February 2026/Month 6: Slow Waking
The Grove meets live several times a month and includes a number of asynchronous supports and opportunities for connection, primarily through a dedicated Discord. The community that has sprung up out of our first cohort is so special, and we hope that like-hearted writers and artists will join us! Here’s what one member of the first Grove had to say about her experience:
When The Grove was first announced, it felt to me like a lifeline. I joined with the intention of creating new art for a show I wanted to have this year. I had to set my work aside several months before when my dad’s cancer diagnosis changed, and I didn’t have the capacity to focus on this project I so badly wanted to bring to life.
Having a space like The Grove to help me stay focused and grounded in creativity and spiritual connection sounded like just what I needed to be able to get back to my art. What I didn’t know, was that participating in this community would send me on a side quest away from what I thought I needed to be doing. Through the conversations during monthly kickoff calls and within the Discord community, I realized that I had some other work to do before I could get back to my art. I leaned into grief work through tarot (thanks to Meg’s amazing spreads), and dug deeper into my chart (thanks to Jeanna’s brilliant astrology conversations). I started to learn watercolor for the joy of it. And I shared what I was exploring through all of it within the community.
My dad died a couple months into The Grove, and I know without a doubt that being in this community helped me stay connected to my heart and hope during a very difficult time. And I also know that because I went on that side quest, I was able to begin to build a solid connection to my spiritual and creative practices that do not have to be tied to “work.”
And also, I was eventually able to make new art for a show because I had built up practices that supported me in making the art my heart needed. So grateful to this community for supporting this creative wildling through these past months!
— Marika
We hope you’ll join us!
Thank you for reading this edition of Astrology for Writers. I appreciate you!
feeling the capricorn community love energy today -- dropping things off for trades/for free with a handful of people today, set aside some food to donate to the food pantry here at a local music venue, and planning on doing some rituals tonight to really help uplift me + the community in the current times. this was a lovely read, thank you for writing!